Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020

In this regulation – prescribed date, in relation to a storage system, means 2 years after the day on which a groundwater protection zone, in which part or all of the storage system is situated, is declared under regulation 5.

This regulation applies to a storage system if the storage system is in use when a groundwater protection zone, in which part or all of the storage system is situated, is declared under regulation 5.

An infrastructure owner of a storage system to which this regulation applies must ensure that, before the prescribed date – a sufficient number of suitably located groundwater-monitoring wells, as determined in accordance with regulation 23, are installed in respect of the storage system; and the groundwater-monitoring wells referred to in paragraph (a) are, in addition to the requirements under regulation 19, installed in accordance with any EPA guidelines issued in relation to the installation of groundwater-monitoring wells. Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.